About Alpha Hunt and Whimbyte

What this site is

Whimbyte is the home of Alpha Hunt: Night Tracker, a free top-down stealth game you play right in the browser. There is one game here, made and maintained by one person.

Earlier versions of whimbyte.com carried short write-ups of other people’s wolf games. Those pages have been retired; the site now hosts its own game instead.

Who makes it

I’m Tahlia Briggs, a hobby game-maker based in Newport, VIC. I design the maps, write the code and tune the hunters by playing them far too many times.

How it is built

The game is plain JavaScript drawing onto an HTML canvas. The wolf, the hunters, the trees and the golden mask are all shapes drawn by code. Line of sight and lamp light are worked out by casting rays against trees and rocks every frame, and each hunter runs a small four-state routine: patrol, suspicious, chase, search.

Sounds are synthesised with the Web Audio API while you play. There are no image or audio files in the game, no third-party scripts, and no web fonts loaded from other servers.

What it collects

Nothing about you. There are no accounts, no analytics and no ads. Your progress and sound setting are stored only in your own browser. The details are on the data use page.